Leo was threatened by Qin Dong to retreat again and again, and also let Leo know that now is not the time to quarrel, so he hurriedly paid the ransom and changed the emperor back, so as not to be known by the Xiongnu royal court that Qin Dong had captured the emperor, and sent someone over to let Qin Dong escort the emperor to the royal court.

Leo's face turned blue and red for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, Lord Qin Dong is really powerful, I have already brought all the ransom, let's pay it now, I will order someone to send it over, Lord Qin Dong will return the Emperor to me, let me take it back!" ”

"No hurry, no hurry, haha!" Qin Dong said a word, and then took a roll of purple silk handed over to Leo by Peteus next to him and said: "Before I came, I have reached an agreement with the emperor of your country, and the agreement stipulates: first, the Eastern Roman Empire redeems His Majesty Marcian, and the Eastern Roman Empire must pay Qin Dong, the commander of the southeastern border defense area of the Great Hun Empire, 10,000 pounds of gold, 10,000 sets of cavalry armor and a full set of weapons and equipment, 1 million pounds of wheat, 200,000 pounds of pig iron, 200,000 feet of cloth, and 500 craftsmen of all kinds. There are 1,000 women over the age of fifteen and under the age of 30, this is one of them, and the second is that the Eastern Roman Empire will marry the little princess Venina to the commander of Qindong within one year and two years, and third, the Eastern Roman Empire will cede all the areas west of Quesnel and north of the Petro Mountains in Thracian province to Qindong, the commander of the southeastern border defense area of the Balkans of the Great Hun Empire, and the army and ruling institutions of the Eastern Roman Empire must withdraw from the area west of Quesnel within half a month, so that the commander of Qindong will send troops to take over.

Second. Since the little princess Venina is married to Qin Dong's commander, the two families are in-laws, and they should be friendly for generations. The two sides should form a military strategic alliance, and if one of them is in trouble, the other side must send troops to help each other and jointly fight the enemy.

Third, since the signing of the agreement, the two sides have strengthened economic, cultural, political, and military exchanges as friendly countries to each other. Exchanges in all sectors should be strengthened, and the two sides should open their borders to each other and lower the threshold for entry. So that all kinds of materials can pass freely between the two countries, so that the two countries can communicate with each other!

These are the three main points, and there are some other articles below for the Governor to take a look at. I'm sure the Governor won't veto this agreement in front of your Emperor, right? This was personally signed by His Majesty the Emperor of your country. It has the autograph and seal of His Majesty the Emperor of your country. If the Governor thinks that this agreement is invalid, then it is a denial of the authority of His Majesty the Emperor of your country, and the veto of the authority of the Emperor is also the Emperor, and it does not matter whether the Governor redeems the Emperor or not! ”

Leo was shocked, he hurriedly snatched the purple silk cloth and looked at it, purple was the special color of the Byzantine emperor, so Qin Dong used the purple silk cloth as the carrier of the text of the agreement, a total of triplicate. Both sides kept one copy each, and the other one was already sent by Qin Dong to the Xiongnu royal court. It's just that the part of the ransom that is hidden on it is only the land cut and the kiss.

Leo glanced at it a few times and ascertained what was written on the silk cloth, which had three scripts, one Latin, the other Greek, and the third Chinese, with Marcian's autograph and seal on the back, and he almost fainted.

The ransom is a trivial matter, the empire can still get this money, and it is nothing to marry a princess, just a woman, but the land is ceded, and the area is one-third the size of the entire Thracian province, which makes Leo a little unacceptable.

However, the silk cloth is clearly written, and the signatures and seals are even clearer, and it is impossible to repay the debt.

Leo looked at Emperor Marcian, Marcian could only nod helplessly, Leo remembered Empress Pulkaria's instructions before leaving, no matter what harsh conditions Qin Dong proposed, in short, he agreed to come down first, and ransom the emperor back, and then talk about the matter of settling accounts, the emperor of a country was taken captive, if he didn't redeem it, the subjects were afraid that it would be really difficult to explain.

Leo gritted his teeth and said: "Since the noble Emperor Xià personally signed the agreement, of course we, as courtiers, must act in accordance with the will of the Emperor Xià, and we will withdraw the army and the ruling body to Kenel within half a month, I don't know how the Thousand Masters will deliver?" ”

Qin Dong said: "The ransom is left, your army and the ruling body must withdraw from Dimit City first, and the retreat must be completed within two days, and we will meet under the city east of Dimit City in two days, and at that time, you can take the emperor back, and in half a month and so on, all your troops and ruling institutions must withdraw to Quesnell, and the two sides are bounded by a grove thirty miles west of Quesnel, and entering the grove is equivalent to the territory of my Great Hun Empire!" ”

Dimeter is an important border town, which is equivalent to a fortress, where the defense facilities are extremely complete, and it is very difficult to overcome, and from Dimeter to Quesnel is basically no danger to defend, if you withdraw from Dimit, you can only withdraw directly to Quesnell, and some small towns in the middle cannot hold it at all.

Things came to this point, Leo could only reluctantly agree, he immediately said goodbye and left, and Qin Dong personally sent him to the border line to watch him cross the border.

The news that the Eastern Roman Empire was going to cede the area west of Quesnel to the Hun Empire spread quickly throughout the city of Dirmit like wings, and the inhabitants of the city were in a panic, and an hour after the news spread throughout the city, men began to flee to the east with luggage and belongings, and women fled to the east with their children, and when it was dark, groups of residents fled to the east at night.

After receiving Leo's evacuation order, the consul and the lord of the city, Holt, were unwilling, but their arms couldn't twist their thighs after all, so they could only withdraw with the officials in the mansion.

In two consecutive days, although many people left one after another, there were still many people who were reluctant to leave their belongings and took the risk of staying, Qin Dong had long expected this situation, when he still did not ask Leo not to allow the residents to escape, others did not want to live under his rule, he could not force others to stay and accept his rule.

On the morning of the third day, the original horse bandit leader, the current centurion Rus, under the order of Qin Dong, led 600 light infantry to take over the city of Dirmit to take over the city defense. Then he left.

In the wilderness more than ten miles east of Dirmit, Leo's army was stationed here, and he was already waiting under the gate of Demeter East to wait for Qin Dong to return the emperor to him. If Qin Dong rebelled and did not return the emperor to him, he would have to hold out until Quesnel's order came from Constantinople before deciding what to do.

Ruth led 600 light infantry to quickly take over the city defenses, and after checking and searching the city, he did not find any troops of the Eastern Roman Empire in the city, so he began to issue a notice of peace and security that had been written long ago, no matter who it was, no matter what nationality it was, as long as he did not deliberately endanger the peace and order. If you don't deliberately go against the new government, everything will be safe, and the citizens will be free to go out on the streets. Merchants were free to buy and sell as long as they paid their taxes, and if they were caught deliberately opposing the new government and disturbing the peace of the city, they would be killed. And those who take advantage of the fire to rob. As long as they are caught, they will be punished on the spot.

Notices were posted everywhere in the city, but there were still few people on the streets, and the citizens who chose to stay were hiding at home to observe the situation, until someone took a gong and beat it on the street, and while beating it, the notice of the new government was read several times in the streets and alleys, and no one dared to come out of the house.

Perhaps there were still a few of the nobles who were reluctant to submit to the city's new masters, but the vast majority of the city's population was poor at the bottom. They don't have any national or national concepts, as long as they are good to them. Whoever has less tax will live under whose rule they are willing to live, and they will be willing to support whomever they want.

When people came out of their homes and found that the soldiers patrolling the streets did not do anything to them, an old man shouted when he saw several soldiers with sword handles in a neat line passing by: "May I ask?" Isn't this city going to be ceded to the Huns? Why don't you people seem to be Huns? ”

"Stop!" After one of the leading soldiers shouted left, the ten-man patrol stopped, and the leading soldier turned around and said: "This old man, there are not only Huns in our team, but also Greeks, Romans, Germans, and Slavs, a few months ago we were just horse bandits in the east of the three mountains and thirty-six villages, the commander of the Hun Empire, Lord Qin Dong, subdued our leader, and we all joined the command of Lord Qin Dong as soldiers, and now we have a salary of gold and ten silver coins every month, And every meal every day is all provided by the army, weapons, armor, and clothes are also specially distributed by Lord Qindong, not only the Huns can be soldiers in the Xiongnu Empire, others as long as they are finally Lord Qindong, and finally the people of the Xiongnu Empire can be soldiers, as long as the citizens here are not hostile to the Xiongnu Empire and the new consuls, as long as they do not take the opportunity to cause chaos and violate the law, they will automatically become citizens of the Hun Empire, and be protected by the new consuls! ”

These revealed a lot of information, it turned out that people of other nationalities could also enter the army of the Xiongnu as soldiers, and the military salary was so high, these news made the citizens rush to recite.

It didn't take long for the patrolling soldiers to be heard shouting in the streets, telling the citizens to stand on both sides of the street, not allowed to go to the middle of the street, the commander Qin Dong was about to lead his troops into the city, and it was a capital crime to ram the horse team of the commander.

These citizens were worried about their lives, so they naturally obediently walked to the side of the street, vacating the wide road in the middle of the street, and every dozen meters, a soldier stood straight with a waist knife in his hand to prevent anyone from going to the middle of the street, and there were citizens standing behind them.

Qin Dong entered the city with six hundred light cavalry, leaving six hundred archers and five hundred heavy infantry to camp outside the west city gate, as soon as the horse team entered the city, under Qin Dong's signal, immediately a person rode a horse to a place forty or fifty meters away from the front of the horse team, while riding a horse and striking the gong, after striking the gong, he announced the order of Lord Qin Dong, from today onwards, the new consul will send someone to retry the case, re-interrogate the prisoners in prison, if they are framed and imprisoned, they will be returned to a clean house, released from prison, if the crime is not very serious, In view of the fact that the new consul will take office, he will consider pardoning some criminals who have committed less serious crimes, hoping that they will be rehabilitated; second, some exorbitant taxes will be abolished to reduce the burden on the citizens; third, the citizens will be able to go to the office of the new consul to sue some of the most vicious people, and the villains who usually rely on their power to collude with officials and oppress the citizens are among the defendants. Fourth, the abolition of slavery, all the slaves in the city are free people from now on, and those who do not want to continue to be slaves can get the land allocated by the government, and each person can get two atabi land. Those who are willing to continue to be slaves must register with the government in person, and must tell their names and ages, and in whose house they are slaves, and the slave owners no longer have the right to kill the slaves, and their children are no longer slaves, and their marriages will be decided by themselves, but they can still be punished by the slave owners, and they can be bought, sold, mortgaged, and transferred together with the land, and the slaves mainly give them a small part of the land to cultivate so that they can support themselves and their families.

After these propaganda people read out one by one, the citizens on both sides of the street let out bursts of cheers from time to time, and began to wave to Qin Dong, who was riding on a horse dozens of meters behind, Qin Dong had long expected this effect, and he also raised his hand and waved to ten people with a smile.

During this period, the Roman Empire, whether it was the Eastern Roman Empire or the Western Roman Empire, the internal contradictions were extremely acute, especially the life of the people at the bottom was extremely difficult, and the worst was the living conditions of slaves.

Among these policies, the most sensational is the fourth, which is almost the same as serfdom in the Middle Ages, and not all slaves in this period are willing to become free people, they are afraid that they will not be able to support themselves, so Qin Dong came up with such a way, anyway, it is to abolish the slavery system, but if someone does not want to become a free citizen, it is okay, and he will automatically become a serf, as long as Qin Dong's regime is maintained, serfdom will appear in Europe in advance.

Qin Dong did not stipulate that the fields could not be bought and sold, and that some of the fields were given to the slaves in order to win their hearts and let them follow the new regime, and his policy did not completely abolish the slave system, which also gave the slave owners a way to live and did not offend them to death. In the second article, there was a reduction in some unreasonable miscellaneous taxes, which was supported by the ordinary freemen.

From the West City Gate to the Consul's Residence, Qin Dong and his army were very warmly welcomed, and many citizens actually knelt down and shouted Long live, which made Qin Dong have a fluttering feeling, the right is really intoxicating, it seems that anyone has a little bit of great joy, even Qin Dong, a person from the next generation, is not exempt from vulgarity. (To be continued......)